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Nov. 3, 1925.

L. JENSEN AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Filed Feb. 53, 1922 3 Sheets-Sheet. 1

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L. JENSEN AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER Filefi Fab. 9, 1922 5 Shaats-Sbeei 2 Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS JENSEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A'SSIGNOR TO UNITED AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER 00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

Application filed February 9, 1922. Serial No. 535,338.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Lotus JENSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to means for operating autographic registers, particularly for the type of which I filed an application for Letters Patent of the United States, February 9th, 1922, Serial No. 535,389, and which are actuated by motors.

Heretofore a satisfactory motor driven autographic register has not been provided because of the difficulty of controlling the periods of time during which the motor should operate. My invention is designed with this particular end in view, and controls the electric current to the motor, and causes the same to stop at the desired moment, during which the post-holes of paper strips pass between the discharge-rollers and stops the advance of the web until the motor is again actuated. This and other ob jects I accomplish by the means hereinafter described, and as set forth in the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side view of the upper portion of the discharge end of an autographic register showing my improvements applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a transverse section taken on dotted line 2, 2, Figure 4-.

Figure 3 is a similar view taken on dotted line 3, 3, Figure 4.

Figure 4 is an end view of the upper portion of the discharge end of an autographic register, showing my improvements applied thereto.

Figure 5 is a transverse section taken on dotted line 5, 5, Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a vertical section taken on dotted line 6, 6, Figure 1.

Referring to the drawings A, A, constitute the side-frames of an autographic register to which my improvements are applied. On one side of the register the sideframe A, is so constructed as to provide a bearing for the feed-rollers, B and C, and for gearing connecting the same. The lowermost of these rollers, B, is tubular and at one end has a handle B secured thereto, and it has a longitudinally reciprocal shaft, D, within the same, that extends from outside of its bearing in side-frame A to a point near the opposite end thereof and near its central portion is connected by a transaxial screw 6 to an. exterior cone (Z. This screw is movable in a longitudinal slot f in roller B, and the cone that is mounted on said roller is adapted to engage and center a loose and exteriorly milled starter annulus 0, whenever it is desired to start the register to discharge paper record strips from the same. This annulus lies next to collar C fixed on roller 13 and it has a central opening that is greater in diameter than that of the roller upon which it is mounted, and when it is engaged by the cone, the latter engages the funnel-shaped sides of said opening and centers the annulus against the collar and moves it into contact with feed-roller C.

The end of the tubular shaft B extends outside of side-frame A, andhas a gear 7 secured thereto. This gear is engaged by a larger gear 8, securely fastened to a drivcshaft 9. Drive shaft 9 is journaled in a plate 10, that is placed parallel to the sideframe A, and in a boss in an outer face-plate 11, of the supporting-frame, and its outer end has a worm-gear 12 securely mounted thereon, which latter is engaged by a worm, 13, on the adjacent end of the armature shaft 14, of an electric motor 15, which. is secured to the plate 10, in any suitable manner.

The shaft 9 mediate the gears 8 and 12, has a pinion 16 secured thereto, which engages a gear 17 below it, which is loosely mounted upon a sleeve surrounding the stationary stud or spindle 18, which latter has its inner end secured in plate 10. Next the outer side of this gear 17, and independent thereof is the annular boss of a handle, 22, and positioned against the outer side of this boss, is a disk 20, that is provided with a segmental face-cam 21, that extends from the base of the upwardly projecting handle 22, concentrically around to within about twenty degrees of its point of beginning. Said disk 20 is formed integral with the outer end of the sleeve 60 and is maintained in rotative assembly on the stud 18 by the head 61 of a screw driven eccentrically into the end of the stud. This cam 21 projects from its lowest point adjacent the handle to its highest point at the opposite end thereof, and it is adapted to be engaged by a friction-roller 23, on the lower shorter end of the lower branch of a lever 2%, which latter is suitably pivoted to a stationary stud, 25, secured to and projecting outwards laterally from plate 10. The upper end of the upper branch of lever 2st is shaped so as to engage the outer end of the shaft D and to push the same into the roller B to withdraw the cone (Z from the annulus ac cording to the engagement of its lower end with the cam 21.

Secured to the side of gear 17 opposite disk 20 a ratchet, 26, that is engaged by a pawl, 27, which latter is pivotally mounted on the smooth end of a pin 28, that is secured in. and projects from a circularplate 29. This circular-plate 29 is supported against an insulated contact-disk 530, that surrounds but does not touch the boss 31, which latter is the hub of and extends from plate 29, toward the supporting-plate 10.

Contact-disk 30 is circular and is preferably made of brass and it is slightly greater in diameter than plate 29. It is insulated from plate 29 by a washer of insulating material and by sleeves 51 that insulate the screws 52 that secure it to the plate 29. substantially as shown in Figure 6 of the drawings.

The periphery of contact-disk 30, is engaged by brushes 32, and 33 that are mounted on the ends of flat springs 34, and 35, respectively. These brushes constitute the terminals of :an electric circuit, and the wires 36 and 37, of said circuit connect with the binding-posts 38 and 89, connected to said brushes. The end of the spring 34 opposite the brush is secured to an insulated block 10 that is supported by plate 10. The end of the spring 35 opposite this brush is secured to an insulated stud 41 also secured to the plate 10. The wire 37 leads from brush 32 to and is suitably secured to a bind post 38, and the wire 36 leads from the brush 33 and is connected to a suitable motor for actuating the mechanism, which motor has a wire 42 leading therefrom to a binding-post 39 The pawl 27 is kept in engagement with the ratchet wheel 26 by means of a curved spring e5, one end of which is secured to a stud 46, projecting from the side of the plate 29, and once during each revolution of plate 29, the tail of the pawl, which projects beyond the perimeter of said plate, comes in contact with the end of an adjustable screw 47 tapped through one of the insulating studs 41, and is caused to rock so as to re lease the pawl from ratchet 26. This disengagement takes place when the circuit is opened by the engagement of the lower brush by a protuberance, say the head of a smaller screw 18, that is tapped, into the perimeter of disk 30, and, once during every revolution engages and pushes said lower brush outwards from the contact-disk 80.

The annular boss of the handle has an offset portion, or extension 49, and this extension has a pawl 54 pivoted thereon, one end of which engages the ratchet 55 on the perimeter of the disk 20, and it is kept in engagement with said ratchet 55, all the time, by a coil spring 56, one end of which latter is connected to the short arm, opposite the hooked longer arm of the pawl and to a pin 57 projecting from the extension, substantially as shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings.

Every time the handle is depressed its movement is imparted through said pawl 5a to the disk, and the latter is rotated sufficiently to make a contact which causes the motor to operate and thereby drive the feed rollers of the register which discharges the paper strip or strips. lVhen perforations in the strip come into registry with the feed rollers further discharge of the paper steps, but the motor continues to operate until the screw head 16 is moved around to a position where it lifts the brush out of contact and breaks the circuit. The perforations being located between the respective tickets printed on the strip permits only a length of strip corresponding to a length of a ticket to be discharged at each operation. The face-cam 21 acting on lever 2st keeps the shaft D pushed in and the cone (l disengaged from annulus 0 during the greater portion of the feed of the paper, but when the roller 23 rides off the cam 21 between the ends of the latter the lever will rock and allow the cone to force the annulus into concentric relation with the shaft and frictionally engage the strip with the roller C. This relation takes place only when the initial. feed is taking place and is sutlicient to move the perforations out of registry with the feed disks on each side of the annulus so that said disks will continue to operate and feed the strip as soon as the annulus has been loosened from the cone.

lVhat I claim as new is:

1. The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is secured to and reciprocated by said shaft, of a lever designed to reciprocate said shaft.

2. The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is secured to and reciprocated by said shaft, of a rocking lever designed to reciprocate said shaft and .a cam for rocking said lever.

The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is secured to and reciprocated by said shaft, of a rocking lever designed to reciprocate said shaft and arotary crown cam for rocking said lever.

s s-The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annularstarter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is secured to and reciprocated by. said shaft, of a rocking lever designed to reciprocate said shaft, a rotary crown cam that engaged by said lever, an electric motor and means operatively connecting said motor and cam.

5. The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is secured to and reciprocated by said shaft, of a rocking lever designed to reciprocate said shaft, a rotary crown cam that is engaged by said lever, an electric motor, means operatively connecting said motor and cam, an electric circuit in which said motor is included, a switch in said circuit, and mechanical devices that open said switch once during every movement of said cam.

G. The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is secured to and reciprocated by said shaft, of a rocking lever designed to reciprocate said shaft, a rotary crown cam that is engaged by said lever, an electric motor, means operatively connecting said motor and cam, an oscillatory handle that starts said cam, an electric circuit in which said motor is included, a switch in said circuit, and mechanical devices that open said switch once during every movement of said cam.

7. The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is secured to and reciprocated by said shaft, of a rocking lever designed to reciprocate said shaft, a rotary crown cam that is engaged by said lever having a peripheral ratchet, an electric motor, means operatively connecting said motor and cam, an oscillatory handle, a pawl carried thereby that engages said ratchet, an electric circuit in which said motor is included, a switch in said circuit, and mechanical devices that open said switch once during every movement of said cam. if

8. The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is secured to and reciprocated by said shaft, of a rockmglever designed to reciprocate said shaft, a crown-cam that is engaged by said lever, an electric motor, means operatively connecting said motor and cam, an electric circuit in which said motor is included, a circularplate, terminal brushes in said circuit that engage the periphery of said plate, a disk, and a device attached thereto that disengages one of said brushes once during each complete movement of said cam.

9. The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is secured to and reciprocated by said shaft, of a rocking-lever designed to reciprocate said shaft, a crown-cam that is engaged by said" lever, a ratchet concentric with and attached to said cam, an electric motor, means operatively connecting said motor and cam, an oscillatory handle for starting said cam, an electric circuit in which said motor is included, a circular-plate, terminal brushes in said circuit that engage the periphery thereof, a disk, and a device attached thereto that disengages one of said brushes once during each complete movement of said cam.

10. In an autographic register paper starting mechanism and paper feeding mechanism, a longitudinally movable shaft for controlling said starting mechanism, drive means for said starting and feeding mechanism including a cam, and a lever cooperating with said cam and control shaft for synchronizing the starting mechanism with the drive means.

11. In an autographic register paper starting mechanism and paper feeding mechanism, a rotatable shaft upon which lever actuated by said cam for moving said said starting and feeding mechanisms are reciprooable shaft whereby said starting mounted, a longitudinally reciprocahle shaft mechanism is caused to cooperate with said 10 operatively connected to said starting meohdrive means.

5 anism, drive means for said feedingmeoha- In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set nism and said reciprocable shaft, a cam aemy hand this 30th day of January, 1922. tuated by said drive means, and a rocking LOUIS JENSEN.

" DISCLAIMER.

1,560,4:'T4.LOU"ls Jensen, Chicago, Ill. AU'roeRAPHIo REGISTERS. Patent dated 'November 3, Disclaimer filed March 3t), 1927, by patentee, the

Um'tecl filutogvwp hic Register V0,, consenting. Hereby enters this disclaimer to that part of the claims in said. s 'ieeification which i is in the following Words, to wit: I

1. The eonibination in an autographie register with teed rollers one of which is tubular, ashaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is seemed to and. reeiprocated by said shaft of a lever designed to reciprocate said shaft.

2. The combination in an'ailtographie register with teed rollers one otQwhieh is tubular, a shaft reei n-ocable \rithinthe tulnilar roller and having one end ektending beyond the end of said roller an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller and a. cone for centering said collar that is seenred to and reeipii'oeated by said shaft, of a rocking lever designed to reciprocate said shaftand a cam for/\ rocking said lever. [Ofiicz'al Gazette April 19, 1927 s'signee, 

